As I previously reported, NBC’s market leader for that area, Andy Beindorf, had a previous relationship with the bank’s management. Beindorf spent most of his career at Indian River National Bank, which was one of Alabama National BanCorp.’s subsidiaries before Alabama National was acquired by RBC Bank in 2008. The former leadership team at Alabama National now runs NBC.

Murray said Beindorf is calling on former Indian River contacts and shareholders to see if they’re interested in becoming investors in National Commerce.

“We’re not trying to raise capital, in a sense that we don’t need capital,” he said. "We’ve never done this before but we felt like the benefit of having their support and their commitment to our effort would outweigh" any concerns existing shareholders would have about the company issuing more capital.

National Bank of Commerce has locations in Birmingham, Huntsville, Lee County, Baldwin County and Vero Beach, Fla.